What do colleges mean by high school units required?Answered
Let's say a college requires you to have 4 social studies units in high school. Do they mean 4 units in 4 different classes or just 4 total unit? I have taken World History Honors (1 credit), Geography Honors (1 credit), and APUSH (this is worth 2 credits in my high school). Will that work for colleges or I will need to take another social studies/history class.
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If a college doesn't specify that it requires 4 years of English, Math, Science or History but states it wants 4 units of social studies, assume that means 4 years worth.
Social studies is a broader term than history so it includes courses in history, economics, philosophy, psychology, civics, religion, ethics, government, geography and sociology.
Your 3 classes would make up 3 units not 4. You should be able to find something to make it 4.
I'm entering Columbia U, as a freshman and I have 11units of Social Studies but I took a PG year of HS.
(AP US history, AP Govt & Politics, Adv. Constitutional Law, AP Human Geography, AP Psychology, History of Native America, History of Opium, Seeing Society (Sociology), The Politics of Science and Memory (History/NeuroScience), The Philosophy of Happiness, and History of Silence.)
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Would AP Macroeconomics work as the 4th unit of social studies for colleges as that’s what I currently have on my schedule?